From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 31 15:29: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A63914BD8; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:28:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from localhost (brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07547; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:27:51 -0700 (PDT) From: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net X-Authentication-Warning: orion.ac.hmc.edu: brdavis owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:27:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu To: Mike Smith Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, Donald Burr , FreeBSD Hardware , FreeBSD Mobile Subject: Re: Where to buy WaveLAN cards (both ISA and PCMCIA)? In-Reply-To: <199908312215.PAA00866@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > Having perused the Linux Aironet driver sources a little while back, I > would be much more concerned with the quality of the driver than the > hardware at this point in time. Bill seems to be reasonably close to > having a working Aironet driver, so we'll have a chance to see for > ourselves soon enough. Very cool. We're looking at them and WaveLAN cards for ad-hoc routing research and possiable campus wide wiring. I believe the comments were not so much about the hardware/drivers as about problems getting access to the specs which resulted in a limited subset of the cards being supported. Since some people reported good results and we'll appparently be seeing a driver soon, I'm inclined to believe it's mostly just "but the VHDL source wasn't released under the GPL" bitching. ;-) -- Brooks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message